Monticello

Adult & Continuing Education center, 6-9pm. Cost: $72. Visit www.scboces.org or call 845/295-4900.

Adult & Continuing Education center, 5:30-9:30pm. Cost: $79. Visit www.scboces.com or call 845/295-4900.

Adult & Continuing Education center, Mondays/Wednesdays/Fridays until May 17, 6–9:30pm. Cost: $999. Visit www.scboces.org or 845/295-4900 or 845/791-4070.

Fish fry dinner sponsored by the Monticello Kiwanis Club, at the Monticello Elks Lodge, 46 North St., 5-7pm. Fish prepared by Tastefully British. Cost: $l2/person. Eat in or take out. Tickets sold at door. 845/794-7050.

There is a split in the Sullivan County Legislature, but it doesn’t run along party lines. Instead, it pits four legislators who want county manager David Fanslau to remain in office for at least the next two years, against five legislators who want him to leave.

At a news conference at the government center on January 3, legislator Jonathan Rouis, the former legislative chair, called for the establishment of a charter revision committee to study the notion of changing the county government to one that would have a county executive, as is the case in Orange and Ulster counties.  Read more

At 22 St. Johns Street, 8:30am-4:30pm. Call the Adult and Continuing Education Program at 845/295-4900 or 845/791-4070.

Bus leaves Apollo Plaza at 8:15am. Sponsored by Monticello Kiwanis Club. $30 per person includes free play-$25 plus $l0 food coupon. 845/794-7050 or 845/794-2888.

The Catskill Mountain Chapter of Hadassah will be having a book discussion at Temple Sholom, 7pm. The book being discussed is "I Am Forbidden" by Anouk Markovits, which is available at amazon.com or your local library. The discussion is open to all and light refreshments will be served. RSVP: 845/794-3962 or lauren.miller13@gmail.com or 845/557-6593 or shain@frontiernet.net.

The swearing in of Judge Stephen Schick offered a look back at 30 years of jurisprudence in Sullivan County. Schick, who had served as executive director of Sullivan County Legal Aid and as a legal aid attorney, was sworn into office on December 29, at the county court house in Monticello. He is now New York State Supreme Court Justice for the Third Judicial District, which serves Sullivan County, as well as Ulster, Green, Albany, Schoharie, Rensselaer and Columbia counties.  Read more

Monticello police arrested Anthony Garrett, 26, of Monticello on December 27. Garrett was charged with felony scheme to defraud in the first degree. Garrett was arrested at 9:45 p.m. on Broadway after police received a complaint that Garrett was soliciting for donations for the IBAM boxing club. Garrett had no affiliation with the boxing club. A person who was affiliated with the club saw what Garrett was doing and alerted Monticello police. When arrested, Garrett had a clipboard with IBAM flyers and a sheet of paper with the names of 13 people listing them as donating funds.  Read more